Mental health service user territories: Enacting 'safe spaces' in the community

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Tucker, I. 2010. Mental health service user territories: Enacting 'safe spaces' in the community. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 14 (4), pp. 434-448. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459309357485

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Authors	Tucker, I.
Abstract	This article develops a conceptualization of 'space' that enables in-depth analysis of mental health service user 'territories'. Driven by the aim to understand how spaces within the framework of 'community care' are produced, an approach that draws upon Deleuze and Guattari's notion of 'territoriality' is developed. Through this we see how important it can be for service users to produce 'safe spaces' that enable forms of 'normalized' activities to be produced, but, crucially, in settings that exist outside completely mainstream settings. Analysing drop-in day centres and home environments (two key sites in community care), the article demonstrates the value of a micro-analysis of the production of space to understanding some of the ways service user experience operates in a spatially distributed sense. This helps to illuminate the impact on identity of existing within 'community care'.
Keywords	Community mental health; Recovery; Space and place
Journal	Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Journal citation	14 (4), pp. 434-448
ISSN	1363-4593
Year	2010
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Accepted author manuscript	7839.pdf
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459309357485
Web address (URL)	https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459309357485
Online	05 Jul 2010
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Accepted	05 Jul 2010
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